Tales of Traveling, Baking and Memory Making™
Blackberry jam cakes are part of my history. My maternal grandmother made them. I wrote about her and my one layer jam cake in a previous post called https://kathywicker.com/family-reunions-soirees-blackberry-jam-cake/ This cake is different in that the jam is added to the batter which gives the layers a purplish color. But […]
Momma very seldom made cookies. She was a cake or pie maker. Cookies took time and patience. She did not have an abundance of either. And now, I understand. A cake can be mixed and put in the oven. Cookies require cookie sheets, dipping the cookie dough out in an […]
KID’S CHOICE This cake is definitely #1 with kids who love a good PB & J sandwich! Any preferred jelly can be used .. your favorite complement to PB & J. I used SMUCKER’S Red Raspberry Preserves and of course my preferred JIF Smooth Peanut Butter. I made a DUNCAN […]
There is nothing I like better than a delicious pound cake as evidenced by the number of pound cakes I have on my blog. Just enter “pound cake” in the search bar and you will see some wonderful pound cakes and their recipes. My basic one is Momma’s Lemon Blueberry […]
No one in my house ever wanted to eat the “heel” or what we called that end piece in the loaf of bread. But I have already told this story and you can read about it here: https://kathywicker.com/bread-pudding/. The recipe associated with this link is a Pumpkin Bread Pudding with […]
We always knew Easter was near because Momma had that old White sewing machine going for hours at a time. It would whirr away stitching white or pink lacy dresses for each of the three of us. We got to shop for hats – the kind that just clamped on […]